Borchert Field

City Selling Former Funeral Home

Health-focused business will take over.

MPD launches the 2024 Operation Summer Guardian

Alderwoman Coggs announces 6th District Landscape Award winners

Key Burleigh Street Visioning Meeting set for Monday

Volunteers Clean Up Abandoned Building in Harambee

Part of a series of community clean-ups organized by county Sup. Priscilla Coggs-Jones.

New Emergency Housing For Those With Lead Poisoning

Community Advocates expanding its portfolio of temporary housing.

Foreclosed Home Will House Those Displaced By Lead Abatement

Community Advocates will buy, rehab city-owned home for temporarily displaced families.

Committee Endorses Dana World-Patterson’s Appointment To FPC

Human trafficking victims' advocate draws high praise from council members.

Meet 14 Urban Farmers

14 Milwaukee residents growing a rich variety of crops.

Census Data Shows Changing Milwaukee Demographics

Fewer white residents citywide, but shrinking population totals in many majority-Black neighborhoods.

Assessments Up 9% to $30.5 Billion

New values were calculated prior to COVID-19 pandemic.

The Enduring Impact of Redlining

Polices begun in 1930s can still be seen in metro-Milwaukee segregation.

“Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes”

Obama’s speech here says health care, education, living wage are on the line.

City of Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention Takes Community Approach to End Violence in Milwaukee

Community-led safety strategy sessions to take action against a deadly August

North Side Leaders Plead for Safe Driving

Reckless driving is plaguing the North Side, community leaders say.

Sherman Park Has Been a Melting Pot

Tracing the neighborhood’s German, Jewish and African American heritage.

Inner City Community Garden Expands

“We Got This” youth group acquires Borchert Field lots, will add fruit trees.

The Rise and Fall of Bronzeville

At its peak in the 1930s to 1950s, it had quite a history.

“Garden of Hope” for Youths in Detention

Andre Lee Ellis mentoring program creates new effort at county detention center.

Community enhancement one block, one area at a time

Event on Monday to announce blight removal effort at 9th and Ring

“We Got This” work initiative starts its 2017 session Saturday

This will be the fourth year of the work initiative.

Study Finds Safe & Sound Works

Program's work to create block clubs helps reduce violence in city.

Do Non-Profits Need New Approach?

Experts jab local non-profits; they keep growing, but so does poverty.

Bosco’s Is a Baseball Tavern

Riverwest bar once was next to gas station owned by Bob Uecker's father.

New Book Brings Fans Back to Milwaukee’s Legendary Ballpark, Borchert Field

"A magnificent job [of] recreating the baseball environment as it used to be, long before domed stadiums and luxury suites. For those of us who grew up in Milwaukee during those heady days, Borchert Field was our field of dreams." - Allan H. (Bud) Selig, Commissioner Emeritus of Major League Baseball

Bader’s Move to Central City Is Laudable

Bader Philanthropies will move from Third Ward to 3318 N. MLK Drive.

“We Got This” enters third summer of mentorship

News release from Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs

Zaffiro’s Has $2 Microbeers, Great Pizza

City’s original thin-crust pie place has 2-for-1 rail mixers and great $2 micro-beers.

Foreclosure Problem Persists in City

It's a different kind of foreclosure problem, caused by poverty, experts say.

“We got this” work initiative starts 2015 run Saturday

Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs is reminding the community that the “We got this” work and mentoring initiative for boys ages 12 to 16 gets underway tomorrow (Saturday, June 13) at 8 a.m. at N. 9th St. and W. Ring.

A.W.E. Bus Tour Explores Milwaukee Neighborhoods, New Community Art Projects

Stops include Washington Park, Borchert Field and Riverwest/Harambee

Will Streetcar Help The Inner City?

Opponents say it won’t. Let’s examine the data.

Segregation Still Major Problem in Metro Area

More than four decades after Fair Housing Act, suburbs still unfriendly to poor and minorities.

Faces of the City

Show at Art is For Lovers gallery features photos of city people and neighborhoods.

Three More Neighborhoods Will Get City Loans

Pulaski Park, St. Joseph’s and Martin Drive neighborhoods now eligible for TIN loan program to increase property values and owner occupancy.

Tips for New Home Buyers

25 organizations at Housing Resources Fair offered advice to city home buyers.

Workshops and key agencies on tap for tomorrow’s Housing Resource Fair

Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs is inviting city residents to attend a housing resource fair tomorrow (Saturday, November 9) from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at LaFollette School, located at 3239 N. 9th St.

Making the City Safer

Safe & Sound honors neighborhood leaders who make Milwaukee a safer place.

How to Build a Block Club

Neighbors band together on near North Side but encounter challenges.

Alderwoman Coggs invites residents to “Heal the Hood”

2:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 26, 2013

No Country for Black Men

New study shows Wisconsin leads the nation in black incarceration, with a shockingly high rate. Why?

Eight Neighborhoods Targeted for Home Improvement Loans

City $900,000 in loan money available for home loans.

A New Community Group Rises

Block clubs have combined to create a new non-profit serving the neighborhood at 8th and Burleigh.

12 Days of Christmas effort to help needy children and families

Giving initiative will include Thursday launch event